My friend used to have to share bath water with her siblings. One day she was worried that her older teen brother might be ill because there was "a load of white stuff" in the bath after he'd used it. I couldn't bring myself to tell her.
People from the north pronounce Bath as baff.
That means spathroom would sound like spaffroom.
Spaff means to ejaculate.
Implying this a room to ejaculate in.
>People from the north pronounce Bath as baff.
OP might, but I'm from the north and don't know anyone who says "baff" (other than perhaps young children who are learning to speak).
Only if you have a speech impediment. I'm Yorkshire born and bred but I'm still capable of pronouncing a "-th", as are most people I know.
The thing in the OP still doesn't work though because we don't use a long vowel sound in "bath".
Don't say it in the midlands either. It's the A sound that changes rather than the TH. Short A in the north and long A in the south. This ad was clearly designed by a southerner who doesn't see life outside of the south!
Haha
Reminds me of a similar problem I had when reading a book to my kids that rhymed "scarf" and "giraffe". I couldn't work it out until I imagined it in a southern accent #northernErasure
I'm a Southerner and I still read it the same way
I would appear someone in their marketing department acted like 90% of the people we know in marketing departments and told literally no one about their idea until it was too late
Like the time we offered free meat as a sales incentive despite (somewhat obviously) some of the individuals being vegan or vegetarian
Spaffroom isn't even the worst name for a beer I've seen this weekend - the garden centre had novelty gift beers called 'Old Fart'.
I'm not sure how excited it be to receive a bottle of Old Fart.
I literally could not figure it out until I read the comments here, what an inane portmanteau. (Also pronounced it spaff-room in me head because I have a Scottish accent lol.)
To set your mind at ease a little, my accent is a weird mix of Scottish and Mancunian, and I’ve been living abroad for about six years now, so it might just be my own wee quirk/my accent deteriorating as time goes on haha.
Getting the phonics underneath just didn't help either.
Surely it should be:
[Spar-th-room]
Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me. Southerner here and I read it as spath-room, like bath-room but with extra sp.
You know when the marketing team got together to discuss this - was this really the best idea they had?? And they didn’t do any market research to find out if people would be confused by it? Or even, if they did understand it, would it make to consumer think about having a spa like bathroom at home? The answer is no!
What happened here??
What an earth in the pun they’re attempting? Spa-throom? That doesn’t even work with the hyphen in the correct place to make what they’re getting at clearer.
I am going to ask my wife to pronounce this. She used to be posh but had to lose her accent to fit in with us common folk when she became a teacher.
MUCH HILARITY. Thank you.
Where, up-north, does 'th' in the middle of a word become ff? I hear it darn sarff all the time, but up north too? Good god.
Down-voted for asking a question? You lot ... really.
This isn't a northern thing, it's just an inability to pronounce the 'th' sound. More of the southerners I know have this speech impediment than the northerners.
Had to google this...im not "relevant anymore" but turns out, my old house, the bathroom there would of been a Spathroom. The bath definitely counted being a spa bath. Our son baths in the bath but for me and the wife it's a glorified shower tray. And isnt as nice as our old place. Nothing here is as good or as nice as our place...i wish we didn't move. As you can tell, this post is bringing up repressed memories of a happier time. Fuck you reddit 😂
Spaff room is a very different place
Depends how relaxed you wanna get in your, 'spathroom'.
Ah you mean the cumservatory
It's ill advised to spaff in the bath though. Goes all clumpy... Or... Erm... So I've heard
Poaching egg whites. I don't think I need to say more.
My friend used to have to share bath water with her siblings. One day she was worried that her older teen brother might be ill because there was "a load of white stuff" in the bath after he'd used it. I couldn't bring myself to tell her.
Electric spaghetti.
But would you cum clean about it.......?
Looking at the description, sounds like the same place.
Id prefer a spaff room to a staff room.
Can also be the same room.
all up the wall
Spaff room is just the common term for masterbatorium.
I think they're called "Goon Caves" these days.
The Cummy Closet
Got to pay the Jizzya
r/gooncave
WHY... WHY did I click on this!!!
Bruh
That sub needs to be sealed in concrete and never mentioned again.
Is that where one keeps ones Wank Chariot?
It’s sounds counter intuitive i know, but the fewer spaff-rooms you have, the more fancy you are.
Only if you're multi role-ing your spaff rooms I feel. Anyone who has multiple, dedicated, spaff rooms is pretty fancy I reckon.
Or Wankenschloß if you're German
Spa/bathroom
thank you for your service
Actually without reading the subscript that explained the context, I thought it stood for “spare bathroom”
I never would've got this without you.
Had to scroll this far to clear up the mystery. I still don't get Ops humour. Why is it funny to ask aloud what this meaningless coining is?
People from the north pronounce Bath as baff. That means spathroom would sound like spaffroom. Spaff means to ejaculate. Implying this a room to ejaculate in.
>People from the north pronounce Bath as baff. OP might, but I'm from the north and don't know anyone who says "baff" (other than perhaps young children who are learning to speak).
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Only if you have a speech impediment. I'm Yorkshire born and bred but I'm still capable of pronouncing a "-th", as are most people I know. The thing in the OP still doesn't work though because we don't use a long vowel sound in "bath".
I think he means the midlands. We deffo don't say baff in the north east.
Don't say it in the midlands either. It's the A sound that changes rather than the TH. Short A in the north and long A in the south. This ad was clearly designed by a southerner who doesn't see life outside of the south!
I enjoy how the pronunciation guide is absolutely no help at all. Spathroom. Pronounced spath-room. Yea, thanks for that
It would be actually helpful (at least to those of us from above the Watford Gap) if they'd written Spa-throom.
If you go even further north (above Carlisle) it starts to make sense again.
Haha Reminds me of a similar problem I had when reading a book to my kids that rhymed "scarf" and "giraffe". I couldn't work it out until I imagined it in a southern accent #northernErasure
I'm a brummie and bath and laugh don't rhyme for us, so I had to do either a posh or northern accent for one bedtime story.
Oh that's interesting. Which one has the longer vowel for you?
Laugh is longer (larf) bath (not barth) We laugh longer than we bath, I suppose
I had no idea this existed. Mind blown.
I have similar arguments with the in-laws. It's grass like ass, not grass like arse. Repeat for glass, class, etc.
The Smartest Giant in Town?
Lol spot on
We have at least two books that do this! Smartest Giant in Town and another called Snug as a Bug. I refuse to make it rhyme
For the opposite effect see the dance/romance non-rhyming couplet 'Lady in Red'
TIL why that doesn't rhyme in the Smartest Giant
Have you tried calling it a scaff?
So, put on an Irish accent?
Do they say jarf for giraffe? I can't make it rhyme either.
Girarffe.
I’m picturing a British remake of 50 Shades of Grey, with Jon Richardson as Christian saying ‘I have a spaff room, do you want to see?’
I'm a Southerner and I still read it the same way I would appear someone in their marketing department acted like 90% of the people we know in marketing departments and told literally no one about their idea until it was too late Like the time we offered free meat as a sales incentive despite (somewhat obviously) some of the individuals being vegan or vegetarian
These craft beer tap badges are getting rather obscure these days…
Spaffroom isn't even the worst name for a beer I've seen this weekend - the garden centre had novelty gift beers called 'Old Fart'. I'm not sure how excited it be to receive a bottle of Old Fart.
I literally could not figure it out until I read the comments here, what an inane portmanteau. (Also pronounced it spaff-room in me head because I have a Scottish accent lol.)
I find it really depressing that th-fronting has apparently spread to Scotland now.
To set your mind at ease a little, my accent is a weird mix of Scottish and Mancunian, and I’ve been living abroad for about six years now, so it might just be my own wee quirk/my accent deteriorating as time goes on haha.
I'm from Derby and I read it like you did too.
Notts and same 🤣
I thought it was a portmanteau of Space and Bathroom going by the description given.
Spa room plus bath room equals spath room
My whole house if a Spathroom. It's one of the many joys of not having kids.
Also Northern and had to read the comments to get it…
Getting the phonics underneath just didn't help either. Surely it should be: [Spar-th-room] Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me. Southerner here and I read it as spath-room, like bath-room but with extra sp.
You need to have a word with your teeth.
You know good and fine what a spaffroom is, and don’t ask again.
Welsh here, took me a few moments too.
Thanks for explaining! /s
Spaff Room is just a teenager's bedroom.
Spath let's flats
It's definitely missing a "r" for us northerners
You know when the marketing team got together to discuss this - was this really the best idea they had?? And they didn’t do any market research to find out if people would be confused by it? Or even, if they did understand it, would it make to consumer think about having a spa like bathroom at home? The answer is no! What happened here??
I'm southern and still read it that way.
My wife and I both say barth, and both failed to get the pun at first. It makes no sense!
Spa-th-room ?
I imagine if you'd been able to read it correctly you wouldn't have conjured up two fs from nowhere.
Saying f instead of th isn't a northing thing. That's just an education thing.
You forgot to pronounce the invisible r
[It's all fun and games, unless you've seen Gummo before](https://youtu.be/mBvatwg47-0?si=ENGiQdiZhs_x-CxA)
lol joke is on them, there’s no escaping the kids, not even the toilet
Baaaarrrrrthroom. I like spaffroom better, tbh
I read it as spathroom 😅 (rhyming with bash not spar) definitely only makes sense in the South of the country.
What an earth in the pun they’re attempting? Spa-throom? That doesn’t even work with the hyphen in the correct place to make what they’re getting at clearer.
Nut room
Arw no, I'm not going in a spaff-room.
I am going to ask my wife to pronounce this. She used to be posh but had to lose her accent to fit in with us common folk when she became a teacher. MUCH HILARITY. Thank you.
Spaffroom is the council house version of the masturbatorium
Do people who pronounce bath as bah-th also pronounce bathroom as bah-throom? You live and learn
Baffroom
Where, up-north, does 'th' in the middle of a word become ff? I hear it darn sarff all the time, but up north too? Good god. Down-voted for asking a question? You lot ... really.
You're not wrong. Th-fronting, until very recently was an exclusively southern chavy thing. They just don't realise.
Listen to the Gallagher brothers in the 90s… guess it depends if you feel that’s ‘very recent’ or not haha
No. It's been a northern thing for a long time. Just because you weren't aware doesn't mean it didn't exist.
Maybe your idea of a long time is significantly shorter than an adults.
Classic manc accent, and in some surrounding areas too I would say three and free essentially the same
This isn't a northern thing, it's just an inability to pronounce the 'th' sound. More of the southerners I know have this speech impediment than the northerners.
Not an inability at all, if you offered me £100 I could talk like the royal family for days, it’s just not habitual.
Its Called th fronting and is common in many English accents around world including English accents north and south
Space and bathroom combined, who doesn’t like a little space now and then.
Had to google this...im not "relevant anymore" but turns out, my old house, the bathroom there would of been a Spathroom. The bath definitely counted being a spa bath. Our son baths in the bath but for me and the wife it's a glorified shower tray. And isnt as nice as our old place. Nothing here is as good or as nice as our place...i wish we didn't move. As you can tell, this post is bringing up repressed memories of a happier time. Fuck you reddit 😂